{"product_id":"beyond-death-charles-r-kim-9780295745633","title":"Beyond Death: The Politics of Suicide and Martyrdom in Korea","description":"\u003cp\u003eSuicide and martyrdom are closely intertwined with Korean social and political processes. In this first book-length study of the evolving ideals of honorable death and martyrdom from the Chosŏn Dynasty (1392-1910) to contemporary South Korea, interdisciplinary essays explore the changing ways in which Korean historical agents have considered what constitutes a sociopolitically meaningful death and how the surviving community should remember such events.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAmong the topics covered are the implications of women's chaste suicides and men's righteous killings in the evolving Confucian-influenced social order of the latter half of the Chosŏn Dynasty; changing nation-centered constructions of sacrifice and martyrdom put forth by influential intellectual figures in mid-twentieth-century South Korea, which were informed by the politics of postcolonial transition and Cold War ideology; and the decisive role of martyrdom in South Korea's interlinked democracy and labor movements, including Chun Tae-il's self-immolation in 1970, the loss of hundreds of lives during the Kwangju Uprising of 1980, and the escalation of protest suicides in the 1980s and early 1990s.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Charles R. Kim\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0295745630\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780295745633\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Washington Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/05\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 390\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Charles R. Kim","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44075996676351,"sku":"9780295745633","price":99.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_779ec8ec-f175-4854-bb67-e58b3f9b94ae.jpg?v=1685462598","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/beyond-death-charles-r-kim-9780295745633","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}